La ansiedad en los adultos mayores vista desde un enfoque psicosocial.

Abstract

Anxiety in older adults is a phenomenon that has a highly relevant impact on the quality of life of this population, and the psychosocial approach allows us to see this issue from a unique point of view, based on the psychosocial aspects that relate this phenomenon to elderly people. This documentary review, with a qualitative and descriptive approach, performs a joint analysis of documents of a scientific nature, where academic articles and undergraduate works or research projects are taken as reference units, establishing three categories of analysis which are anxiety, older adulthood and the psychosocial approach. The conclusions show that the review made allows us to understand the incidence of anxiety as a phenomenon in older adults from the identified psychosocial aspects, the most prominent being the loss of the social role and the low autonomy and high dependency.